kgoo Posted October 27, 2012 Report Posted October 27, 2012 Why is there such a large gap between what μTorrent software shows as number of seeds and what the torrent sites indicate is the number of seeds.At the moment, μTorrent shows 14 seeds for a Star Trek Fan Films torrent, while the web sites show only 2 seeds:http://h33t.com/torrent/4156887/http://www.ahashare.com/torrents-details.php?id=284757http://www.legittorrents.info/index.php?page=torrent-details&id=507438011b5b4107bb38a97e7d728bb9b80c62b8Are μTorrent seeds "partial" seeds?
DreadWingKnight Posted October 28, 2012 Report Posted October 28, 2012 No. "Partial" seeds don't exist.
jsillup Posted October 28, 2012 Report Posted October 28, 2012 Additional seeds not known to trackers can come from DHT and Peer Exchange; the Tackers tab for your torrent(s) will show if that is the case.
kgoo Posted October 29, 2012 Author Report Posted October 29, 2012 Additional seeds not known to trackers can come from DHT and Peer Exchange; the Tackers tab for your torrent(s) will show if that is the case.So, does this mean that all the extra seeds (12 of 14) that are not shown by trackers were using magnet links instead of torrent files?
jsillup Posted October 29, 2012 Report Posted October 29, 2012 Most likely you are seeing seeds that are not registered with the trackers. DHT supports more than just magnet links: http://www.bittorrent.com/help/manual/glossary#DHT
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